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Amber Shanklin

Hallie Shanklin was just ten months old, and in those ten months her mother, Amber had displayed a pattern of neglect that eventually led to Hallie's death.
Last May, a 911 call was made from Shanklin's House. The voice on the phone said, "We went into the bedroom. The baby is dead."

Hallie had been dead for hours. She suffered severe malnutrition and dehydration, prosecutors say. Plus, Hallie's severe type 1 diabetes had not been properly cared for.

"When I found her I fell on the floor. I couldn't believe my little girl was gone," said Shanklin.

Shanklin says she fed her baby three hours before her death and always checked her blood sugar levels and gave her insulin. Police say it's simply not true.

One family photo showed Hallie eating dirt from a planter. Police say it's a possible warning sign of her body's desperate need for protein.

It's very simple people, if you bring a child into this world- you alone are responsible for ensuring that they have their needs met. That they live a decent life, and enjoy all the wonderful things the world has to offer them. If you can not in good faith provide them with that... then do the one single thing that will give them a chance at finding someone willing to... let your child be adopted by someone willing to put that child first, willing to support them, love them and cherish them.

We don't need anymore senseless deaths just because some half assed parent couldn't stop for two minutes and do right by their child just once.
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